The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival congratulate:
Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2015KUNG FURYby David SandbergSweden 2015, fiction, 30'Miami Police Department detective and martial artist Kung Fury time travels from the 1980s to World War II to kill Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. "Kung....

On the occasion of the Odessa International Film Festival, taking place from 10 to 18 July, the European Film Academy will award the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa the title “Treasure of European Film Culture”.
Sergei Eisenstein shot his master piece BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN 90 years ago at the Black Sea port. The Potemkin Stairs are undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous....

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Grimstad Short Film Festival congratulate:
Grimstad Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2015SYMBOLIC THREATSby Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke & Matthias Wermke Germany 2015, documentary, 15'Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? Inspired by the heated debate over the two "White American....

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Krakow Film Festival congratulate: Krakow Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2015THIS PLACE WE CALL OUR HOMEby Sybilla Tuxen & Thora Lorentzen Denmark 2014, documentary, 30'This documentary essay shot in Ukraine portraits the everyday life of a group of Ukrainians in a country in the midst of a military....

Children in 25 European Cities Elect Italian Film by Gabriele SalvatoresIn a truly European vote, 12-14-year-olds in
Aalborg/DenmarkAmsterdam/the NetherlandsAthens/GreeceBarcelona/SpainBelgrade/SerbiaBratislava/SlovakiaBudapest/HungaryCluj/RomaniaErfurt/GermanyIstanbul/TurkeyIzola/SloveniaKiev/UkraineLondon/UKMalmö/SwedenPrizren/KosovoRiga/LatviaSkopje/FYR....

European cinema has lost a great filmmaker and the European Film Academy has lost a dear friend:Manoel de OliveiraThe legendary Portuguese director was one of the founding members of the European Film Academy. He also received two European Film Awards: in 1997 for his film JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD and in 2007 when he received an honorary award on the occasion of....

EFA MASTER CLASS ON EDITINGJUSTINE WRIGHTEUROPEAN EDITOR 2014
The European Film Academy and the Polish Film Academy, in co-operation with the Polish Association of Editors, invite you to a very special master class with Justine Wright, European Editor 2014 for the film LOCKE. During the meeting, which will include a screening of LOCKE, Justine Wright will talk about her....

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Tampere Film Festival congratulate: Tampere Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2015LISTENKUUNTELEby Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni Finland/ Denmark 2014, fiction, 13'A foreign woman in a burka brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator....

by Mike Downey, deputy chairman, European Film Academy
The Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov first came to the attention of the international film world in 2012 with GAMER, which screened to great acclaim at the Rotterdam IFF. Inspired by a computer and video-gaming club for kids that Sentsov had founded, GAMER was shown in the Bright Future section of the festival for talented....